Deep-mantle plumes and ore deposits

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 352, Issue , 2001, Pages 291-322

  Schissel, Don ^a   Smail, Ross ^b  

^a BHP Minerals Discovery   (Canada)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; COBALT DEPOSITS; DEPOSITS; DIAMOND DEPOSITS; ECONOMIC GEOLOGY; MINERALS; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; NICKEL DEPOSITS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; SULFUR DEPOSITS; THERMAL PLUMES;

CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; GOOD CORRELATIONS; HYDROTHERMAL CELLS; LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCES; PALEOGEOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTION; SPATIAL ASSOCIATIONS; VOLCANOGENIC MASSIVE SULFIDES; YELLOWSTONE PLUME;

GOLD DEPOSITS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; GIS; HEAT SOURCE; KIMBERLITE; KOMATIITE; MANTLE PLUME; NICKEL; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; ORE DEPOSIT; PARTIAL MELTING; SOFTWARE; SULFIDE; UPLIFT;

CANADA; KIDD CREEK; KRASNOYARSK [RUSSIAN FEDERATION]; NORILSK; ONTARIO [CANADA]; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 84871066283     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2352-3.291     Document Type: Article

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